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23 Which is easier: to say, Your sins are forgiven you, or to say, Arise and walk [about]?

24 But that you may know that the Son of Man has the [[a]power of] authority and right on earth to forgive sins, He said to the paralyzed man, I say to you, arise, pick up your litter (stretcher), and go to your own house!

25 And instantly [the man] stood up before them and picked up what he had been lying on and went away to his house, [b]recognizing and praising and thanking God.

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 5:24 Joseph Thayer, A Greek-English Lexicon.
  2. Luke 5:25 Hermann Cremer, Biblico-Theological Lexicon.

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